Kate Gray – Stelios Kazantzidis: The great love and the poisonous lines

Their love was stormy and discussed as few in the middle of the last century. And they were a couple for five years. When the unsurpassed folk singer was trying to establish himself and his companion was holding on to the top, which had just arrived. Kati Gray and Stelios Kazantzidis separated epicly, with the singer who died Sunday morning (19-01-2024) having spoken over the years about both their acquaintance and the reasons for divorce. “Stelios Kazantzidis made me two stinks and I made him hurt,” the singer said. CORVERSE Speaking to the “Philifree” of Cyprus, Kate Grey had revealed that Stelios Kazantzidis cheated on her, which hurt her very much. Was Kazantzidis unfaithful? Yeah, he made me two stinks. And when I broke up with Stelios, I was dating Nico the Neck. I had a great time with him, three years, I had no problem, mister. CORVERSE Why did you forgive Kazantzidis? I never forgave him, darling. I made him hurt like hell. I was saying to him “You and I should stay in the world and there would be no other man out of your mind that I would come back with you.” “I will make you, my love, as you were first. I love you, I’m sorry for what I did,” he told me. What did he do? Hey, didn’t he leave with Marinella? But I loved Stelios. Because he was the first man after my husband caressed me, that made me feel like a woman. In another interview, in ogdoo.gr, Kate Gray had reported that Stelios Kazantzidis, a year after their separation, returned to her, but although an attempt was made to reconnect, was unable to be with him again. “The affection he found in me was not found by any woman. I was a slave to the man.” “It was the biggest abuse of my life. She wasn’t lucky somewhere. He went crazy, not me. Stelios came back to me after a year. But I was freezing somewhere. I made an attempt to get involved with Stelios, but apparently I was over it and I had already met another man and I was happy with him, Nico Lemo, the shipowner.” “I also liked Stelios as a man, because, I say, he was not Kazantzidis at the time, I say this because I loved him as Stelios, Kazantzidis, because he was a nice child and had a nice soul. He only had one flaw. All the kids have it, but he had it more than he had to. He loved his mother very much. And I’m a mother and I love my kids and they love me. But I never prevented them from their happiness,” Kati Gray had said in an interview with ERT. As he has described a friend of Stelios Kazantzidis, on an ERT show, after their separation and while he has met Marinella and appear in night clubs of the time, an episode will be created when Kate Gray sees them sing together. Stelios Kazantzidis on the other hand in an interview with Alpha had stated that he had nothing to remember from that period, while having questioned her honesty when she spoke in words of love for him. “There are many kinds of love. People love each other in their own way. You want to think Gray loved me, I’ll tell you one thing: When she knew a new friend, she took my pictures from her table, hid them and put on the gentleman. And when we got back together, he put my pictures back together. These are not love, nor love is real. These are professional loves aimed at some interests …,” said Stelios Kazantzidis regarding Kate Grey.